Petitioners seek preference over Mrs. Spankie for company debts, challenging interlocutor that their title as executors-creditors is defective under 1695 c. 41.
Answers by Duncan Spottiswoode, Mrs. Barbara Syme, and others to the petition of James M'Dowall and others, responding to claims that the respondent's indenture with William Reid and Company was improperly terminated.
Petition of Andrew Archer, Brewer in the Abbey of Holyroodhouse, asking the Court to remit an unjust and oppressive execution of diligence by John Law and John Stewart, messengers in Edinburgh.
Replies by James Morgan to the Answers for the Viscount of Arbuthnot, arguing that a charge to remove is at an end by the death of the charger, and that an apparent heir cannot insist in a removing.
Miss Gordon seeks to enforce a House of Lords judgment and modify expenses in a libel case against Mrs Barclay, but the Court refuses as the cause is final and out of jurisdiction.
Information of Matthew Montgomerie, arguing that Messrs P. and F. Forresters and Co. violated their contract by refusing to send the ship Six Brothers on its third Greenland voyage, and instead sold her for profit while keeping the pursuer's share liable for loss.